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Letter, 'Of the suddenness of congelation; of kindling bodies by electricity; of a micrometer adjusted to Scarlet's microscope' from Samuel Christian Hollman to Cromwell Mortimer

Reference number: L&P/1/339

Date: 1744

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Fourteen pages in Latin with twenty-four pages of English translation.

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Sam. Christiani Hollmanni, philosoph. in Reg. Georgia Augusta [Gottingens.] Prof. Pub. Ord. ad Cromwellum Mortimerum, M. D. R. S. Secret. Epistola de subitanea congelatione, de igne electrico, de micrometro microscopio applicando'

Read 10 January 1745

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L&P/1/339
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1744
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38 pages
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Samuel Christian Hollman

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Samuel Christian Hollman, Letter, 'Of the suddenness of congelation; of kindling bodies by electricity; of a micrometer adjusted to Scarlet's microscope' from Samuel Christian Hollman to Cromwell Mortimer, 1744, L&P/1/339, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_339/letter-of-the-suddenness-of-congelation-of-kindling-bodies-by-electricity-of-a-micrometer-adjusted-to-scarlets-microscope-from-samuel-christian-hollman-to-cromwell-mortimer, accessed on 11 November 2025

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